Matthew Heineman Quotes
It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
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The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.
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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'
